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Writing about death is like trying to describe a fullstop — a single mark that holds the silence of entire stories. No matter how intricate, how brief or how sprawling, or how richly adorned with literary ornamentation or simply stripped bare of any sophistry… all stories — inevitably — gather before the fullstop and die […]

When I joined IIT-D, I had a brief stint in the neuro-mechanics research lab at the centre for biomedical engineering (CBME). Here, I worked extensively on gait analysis and prosthetic development for trans-femoral amputees. I made odd circuits that controlled the actuators of artificial knees, collected amputee gait data; to a considerable depth – learnt […]

I have learnt a very small but an important lesson in just the last two months-That, all glories are false and all successes, futile. What really enriches the soul is love. The companionship in which there is warmth and a belonging. A calling of the soul that reminds you of your home; with your loved […]

We move to bigger cities for jobs and we merely just move. We continue to live in the setup of our little town where a play is on of our past days. And in these plays, we have a role, of an earlier version of ourselves which, in retrospect, is a role we’ve come to […]

When I was in my second year of BE in Nitte University, I had an unusual opportunity to work with a research group consisting of my seniors working on a Machine Learning problem for a biomedical application. I was the only junior member in the team with zero experience in scientific computing. I did not […]

This is a suicide note. Of course, it is obvious from the title but I am yet undead. No, it is not one of those days which went bad for me. In fact, I had a very successful day. Something, many youngsters in my country would die to live in. I won’t get into the […]

It is the fourth day of a nationwide lock down in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic that the world is currently facing. I have been cooped up in my room for more than a week. My university closed down a couple of weeks before the prime minister’s call for a nationwide lock down that […]

We all need a little bit of craziness in us. Like the right rain needs a little bit of wind that sends the drops swirling down from the sky.We all need a cloud like the bright sun has one. And we need a silver lining which defines the darkness of the cloud. We need imperfections […]